Event

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

26 Dec 1991 · 65.00° N, 90.00° E

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When
26 Dec 1991
Kind
Event
Coordinates
65.00° N, 90.00° E
Description
The Soviet Union is dissolved into 15 independent states leaving China as the world's last major communist state.

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

1988–1991 breakup of the sovereign state

On 26 December 1991, the Soviet Union was formally dissolved and ceased to exist as a sovereign state and subject of international law. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government and to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's efforts to reform the Soviet political and economic system in an attempt to stop a period of political and economic stagnation.

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